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THE annual meeting of the Association of British Zoologists was held in the rooms of the Zoological Society on Saturday, Jamiary 4, Prof. J. S. Huxley being in the chair. At the previous meeting the Association had appointed a committee to inquire into any means which could be devised to lessen the confusion at present caused by frequent changes in the scientific names of animals, and especially of the common species used in schools and universities as types for teaching and experiment. Mr. H. R. Hewer, secretary of the Association, read the report of this committee. A list of the names accepted at present as correct for a large number of animals has been prepared, and it is hoped to publish this list in the near future. Prof. J. W. Munro, of the Imperial College of Science, opened a discussion on the extent of the opportunities which are at present available to junior members of the staffs of the universities for carrying on individual research. Dr. B. Dawes, Mr. C. C. Hentschell, Dr. E. B. Worthington and others spoke on this subject. It was the general view that, so long as promotion in the universities is made to depend, as it so often is at present, on the results of research, the members of the staffs should be given more opportunities for carrying out this research. Either increase in the number of the staffs, or provision of research grants for members of the teaching staff by which they could be released from teaching duties in whole or in part for short periods, would ease the position. A third discussion was held on the conditions under which consultant work in zoology is being carried on. Such work has considerably increased in recent years in spite of the existence of several institutions provided by the Government for the study of problems in economic zoology. Dr. J. C. F. Fryer of the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. R. C. Fisher of the Forest Products Research Laboratory, Princes Risborough, and Mr. H. R. Hewer spoke in this discussion, and the Council of the Association was asked to make inquiries whether it would be possible to prepare a list of recognised zoologists qualified to give advice on these matters.
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Association of British Zoologists. Nature 137, 143–144 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137143c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137143c0